Climategate mathematicians outside the tight-knit climate modelling community did an independent review of the data and methods used by Michael Mann: * the statistical methods used to create the "hockey stick" were first exposed as fundamentally flawed by an expert Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre [1] * Dr. Ross McKitrick is a professor of environmental economics at the University of Guelph and is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute. His work with Stephen McIntyre — another Canadian — provides much of the basis for skepticism of the hypothesis of anthropogenic climate change. [2] ## Links[edit] * Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation - Telegraph